Biography of Francisco Villa - Pancho Villa

(1878/06/05 - 20/07/1923)
Pancho Villa
José Doroteo Arango Arámbula
Mexican revolutionary leader

Was born on June 5, 1878 in La Coyotada, a tiny population of the municipality of San Juan del Río, Durango.

His parents were Arango and Micaela Arámbula.

Villa grew up to be rancher and did not learn to read; not had the opportunity to attend school because his family needed him to work on the farm and pay the debts of his father. Following the death of his father took the family working muleteer in the hacienda "El Gorgojito" of Augustine Lopez Negrete. In 1894 he shot injured Squire to find him dishonouring her sister, who was 16 years old, and had fled pursued by the justice. He remained hidden in the mountain where he joined bandits led by Ignacio Parr and changed its name to the Francisco Villa. During those years was appreciated by the partitioning between the poor much of what he stole.

When the Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910 against Porfirio Díaz, was put under the orders of the opposition leader Francisco i. Madero. It was a good guerrilla chief, recruited laborers and small settlers dispossessed of their lands in their troops, and prominently participated in several battles against the federal Government. During the administration of Madero, was under the command of the Mexican general Victoriano Huerta, who, suspicious of him, sentenced him to death for insubordination. Pancho Villa was transferred to the prison of Lecumberri where it was from June to November 1912. In December he was transferred to the prison of Santiago Tlatelolco, where escaped on Christmas day at 3 in the afternoon. It is said that while in prison he learned to read and write. He escaped to the United States, but returned after the murder of Madero and the arrival to power of Huerta, in 1913, joining the Constitutionalist army created by Venustiano Carranza. He took control of the State of Chihuahua and formed the División del Norte, occupying the cities of Torreon, Ciudad Juárez and Zacatecas.

It showed between 1913-1914 had don for public administration. As provisional Governor of Chihuahua, he restored order quickly, cheapened necessities, opened literary and scientific Institute, waived arrears of contributions, issued paper money, created 50 schools in a month, sent his men to help with the harvest and ordered the repair of railroads and telegraph lines by imposing hard code that applied to their own troops. He established the prohibition for the army and threatened to shoot who found drinking.

He entered the City of Mexico along with Emiliano Zapata in November 1914, after rejecting the authority of Carranza. He suffered a severe defeat in Celaya regarding the general Obregón, so it withdrew the State of Chihuahua, snatching properties to large landowners.

On March 9, 1916 he crossed the border and attacked the American city of Columbus (New Mexico), killing several people and destroying part of it. When Carranza was overthrown in 1920, Adolfo de la Huerta invites you to lay down their weapons. After accepting the Amnesty signed the conventions of Sabinas in 1920, received property 25 thousand hectares Canutillo Ranch , close to Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, it exploded with his former colleagues from the Division of the North, the Golden.

He had numerous lovers and was polygamous as with many of them she got married by the Church. Villa was a beautiful man, but a powerful figure and not missed women to lie with pregnant with him, and for many of them, by the revolutionary leader was an honor. The number of his lovers is impossible to ascertain, however have been documented up to 23 wives. He is considered that Luz Corral, was the great love of his life, although it certainly was not the only one, and with nearly all its women, Villa left offspring. All their wives put their house and kept all his children, he even sent some to study in United States.

On July 20, 1923, Francisco Villa embarks on the last trip when he was heading to a family party in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, where he dies shot together with his friend, Colonel Miguel Trujillo in his car.

In February 1926, his remains were desecrated disappearing head nicknamed "Centaur of the North". In 1976, his mortal remains were transferred to the monument of the revolution.

Corrido de Pancho Villa

(Popular mexicana)

I was soldier of Francisco Villa
from immortal fame man
that though it was sitting in the Chair
It envidiara not the presidential.
Now I live there by the shore
Recalling that time immortal,
ayayay,
now I live there by the shore
beyond remembering Villa by Parral.

I was one of those golden
with time it became more
We were crippled in the fight
defending the homeland and honor.
Today remember the past
I fight with the invader
ayayay,
today remember the past
those golden that I was more.

My horse riding both
in Jimenez death reached
a bullet that to me I had
your body is through him.
To die of pain relinchaba
country life delivered
ayayay,
to die of pain relinchaba
how I cried you when he died.

Pancho Villa you've recorded
in my mind and in my heart
and although I was sometimes defeated
by the forces of Álvaro Obregón
I always walked as a faithful soldier
until the end of the revolution
ayayay,
I always walked as a faithful soldier
that he has both fought at the foot of the Canyon.